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2A Metaphysics of Enchantment or a Case of Immanentizing the Eschaton?In Lissa McCullough & Elliot R. Wolfson (eds.), D. G. Leahy and the thinking now occurring, State University of New York Press. pp. 97-108. 2021.
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5Erich Przywara and postmodern natural law: a history of the metaphysics of moralsUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 2019.Graham McAleer's Erich Przywara and Postmodern Natural Law is the first work to present in an accessible way the thinking of Erich Przywara (1889-1972) for an English-speaking audience. Przywara's work remains little known to a broad Catholic audience, but it had a major impact on many of the most celebrated theologians of the twentieth century, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Edith Stein, and Karl Barth. Przywara's ground-breaking text Analogia Entis (The analogy of being) brough…Read more
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5Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the BodyFordham University Press. 2022.This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas'stheory of the body presents a Catholic understanding of the body and its implications for social and political philosophy. Making a fundamental contribution to antitotalitarian theory, McAleer argues that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas's theory of the body is better than other commonly available theories. He contrasts this theory with those of four other groups of thinkers: the continental tradition represented by Kant, Schopenhauer, Me…Read more
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5Saint Anselm: An Ethics of Caritas for a Relativist Agent?Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 70 163-178. 1996.
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32Why Technoscience Cannot Reproduce Human Desire According to Lacanian ThomismForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 24 (2): 279-300. 2019.Being born into a family structure—being born of a mother—is key to being human. It is, for Jacques Lacan, essential to the formation of human desire. It is also part of the structure of analogy in the Thomistic thought of Erich Przywara. AI may well increase exponentially in sophistication, and even achieve human-like qualities; but it will only ever form an imaginary mirroring of genuine human persons—an imitation that is in fact morbid and dehumanising. Taking Lacan and Przywara at a point of…Read more
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535Why Technoscience Cannot Reproduce Human Desire According to Lacanian ThomismForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 2 (24): 279-300. 2019.Being born into a family structure—being born of a mother—is key to being human. It is, for Jacques Lacan, essential to the formation of human desire. It is also part of the structure of analogy in the Thomistic thought of Erich Przywara. AI may well increase exponentially in sophistication, and even achieve human-like qualities; but it will only ever form an imaginary mirroring of genuine human persons—an imitation that is in fact morbid and dehumanising. Taking Lacan and Przywara at a point of…Read more
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11The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being (by John Wippel) (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 64 (2): 372-374. 2000.
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1Reason and the Heart: A Prolegomenon to a Critique of Passional Reason (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (4): 927-927. 1997.This slim volume, which includes a number of sections that have already appeared in journals or collected editions, treats a too often ignored dimension of rationality--its dependence on affectivity. Wainwright takes his book to demonstrate the need for a "critique of passional reason"; it is a lengthy and detailed study of the "conditions under which passion does and does not enhance reasoning". The book is a prolegomenon, because Wainwright wants to show that one cannot speak adequately about …Read more
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10The Science of Music: A Platonic Application of the Posterior Analytics in Robert Kilwardby's De ortu scientiarumActa Philosophica 12 (2). 2003.
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12Airwar and Justice: Has Albert Camus a Contribution to Make to Catholic Teaching on War?Acta Philosophica 11 (1). 2002.
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Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History by C.C. Pecknold (review)Nova et Vetera 11 (2). 2013.
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Rebels and christian princes: Camus and Augustine of violence and politicsRevista Filosófica de Coimbra 8 (16): 253-268. 1999.
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44Who were the Averroists of the Thirteenth Century?: A Study of Siger of Brabant and Neo-Augustinians in Respect of the Plurality ControversyModern Schoolman 76 (4): 273-292. 1999.
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27Was Medical Theory Heterodox in the Latin Middle Ages?Recherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 68 (2): 349-370. 2001.All intellectual histories of the Middle Ages note that Greek and Arabic science, medicine, commentary and philosophy had an enormous influence upon the great intellectual achievements of the later Middle Ages in the Latin West. Yet, these same histories also tend to cast the condemnations of 1277 as a watershed moment when the Christian West rejected the science and philosophy of pagans and infidels, and especially the synthesis of the two, the commentaries on Aristotle’s works by Averroes. Rec…Read more
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16The Politics of the Flesh: Rahner and Aquinas on ConcupiscentiaModern Theology 15 (3): 355-365. 1999.
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41Disputing the Unity of the World: The Importance of Res and the Influence of Averroes in Giles of Rome's Critique of Thomas Aquinas concerning the Unity of the WorldJournal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1): 29-55. 1998.Disputing the Unity of the World: The Importance of Res and the Influence of Averroes in Giles of Rome's Critique of T homas Aquinas concerning the Unity of the World G. j. MCALEER 1. INTRODUCTION tILES OF ROME earned, after a decidedly difficult start, the most complete honors open to an academic religious in the Middle Ages. Joining the Hermits of St. Augustine at age 14, he became the first regent master of his order at the University of Paris ; his works were made compul- sory in the educati…Read more
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26Wainwright, William J. Reason and the Heart: A Prolegomenon to a Critique of Passional Reason (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (4): 927-928. 1997.
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33Disputing the unity of the world: The importance ofJournal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1): 29-55. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Disputing the Unity of the World: The Importance of Res and the Influence of Averroes in Giles of Rome’s Critique of Thomas Aquinas concerning the Unity of the WorldG. J. Mcaleer1. introductiongiles of rome (1243–1316) earned, after a decidedly difficult start, the most complete honors open to an academic religious in the Middle Ages. Joining the Hermits of St. Augustine at age 14, he became the first regent master of his order at th…Read more
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Matter and the unity of being in the philosophical theology of Saint Thomas AquinasThe Thomist 61 (2): 257-277. 1997.
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27Augustinian Interpretations of Averroes with Respect to the Status of Prime MatterModern Schoolman 73 (2): 159-172. 1996.
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Sensuality: An avenue into the political and metaphysical thought of Giles of RomeGregorianum 82 (1): 129-147. 2001.L'essai concerne le philosophe-théologien, Giles de Rome, de la fin du treizième siècle. Bien qu'il fut un disciple de Thomas d'Aquin, sa théorie de la sensualité est très différente de la sienne. Dans sa discussion de la maîtrise de soi, Giles utilise des métaphores politiques pour exprimer comment la raison contrôle les appétits des sens. Ces métaphores sont toutes d'un caractère violent. Ici, Giles se trouve en compagnie de Platon, Descartes, Kant, et plus récemment du Jésuite Karl Rahner. Aq…Read more
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Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics. A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the BodyTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (3): 673-673. 2006.
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12The Presence of Averroes in the Natural Philosophy of Robert KilwardbyArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 81 (1): 33-54. 1999.
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24Individuation and Ethics: A Problem for the Ontology of the Subject in Merleau-Ponty?Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 2 (2): 25-41. 1998.
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29Saint Anselm: An Ethics of Caritas for a Relativist Agent?Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 70 163-178. 1996.
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Craemer-Ruegenberg, Ingrid und Speer, A. , Scientia und Ars im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 57 (3): 574. 1995.
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12Jesuit Sensuality and Feminist BodiesModern Theology 18 (3): 395-405. 2002.The stated goal of Donna Haraway's “Cyborg feminism” is to liberate sensuality from violence. In examining her book alongside that of Jesuit Toletus it becomes clear that both argue that sensuality is a place of metaphysical violence. The first two sections of the essay demonstrate this, and, in addition that Toletus' commentary on Aquinas is hardly accurate. This fact will help justify the claim that the Jesuit tradition includes a rather particular theory of sensuality, the origin of which is …Read more
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